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To: longnshort who wrote (326588)	2/20/2007 1:12:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586983

No it doesn't. At least not unless your concept of natural rights requires that they automatically be enforced and can always be exercised, but there is nothing in the definition of the concept that includes such an idea. It is certainly possible for someone to torture you to death. That possibility doesn't mean you don't have the right not to have someone do that to you, it means that your rights can be violated. You might also die from natural causes. You might reasonable argue that after that death you would have no natural rights because (unless there is some form of after life or reincarnation) there isn't a you anymore to have rights, but while there still is a you, you could still have rights. Let me put this another way. How does the fact that you could die tomorrow show that you have no natural rights?